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Excerpt from The Public Records of the State of Connecticut, for the Years 1783 to 1784: With the Journal of the Council of Safety and an Appendix From January 9, 1783, to November 15, 1783
Annihilated and out of Sight; If what the Court have done, is right.
For some time after this, the state tried to do what it could to protect the interests of her settlers in that region against Pennsylvania, but with little apparent success (pp. 120, 208, Under the colonial charter Connecticut could still lay claim to the tract beyond Pennsyl vania's western boundary. In 1784 the Assembly authorized its delegates in Congress to cede to the nation for the common benefit of the United States its claims to that part of the strip' which lay more than 120 miles west Of the western boundary of Pennsylvania, But the state reserved for the benefit of the Officers and privates of the Connecticut Line Of the Continental Army the land from the Pennsylvania boundary for 120 miles west (p. This tract became celebrated as the Western Reserve, now a part of the State of Ohio.
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